Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1887-07-15
farmers' Column.
Give fools their gold q knaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who sows a field or trains a flower.
Or plants tree. is more than all.
Agricultural Notes.

For fattening chickens an excel
lent feed is corn meal, mixed with
boiling hot, sweet SKINNED milk. Il
gives the flesh a fine flavor, and white
clear appearance, which adds to theil
market value.
If old fruit trees fail to yield pro
6table crops, dig the soil up thorough
ly and apply good dressing Of well
rotted manure and work thoroughly
into the soil. Then, if you have them
apply a dressing of wood ashes. So
advises n. j. Shepherd.
Run green clover, rye, wheat, oats
or corn through the feed cutter set to
cut in half inch lengths and feed to
fowls confined in yards. This is the
soiling system applied to poultry keep
ing and works admirably, as those
know who have tried it.
It is stated that one out of every six
in Germany is engaged in some branch
of industry connected with forestry.
Paper is now generally made from
wood pulp, while furniture, artificial
ivory, and articles Of the most varied
description are made from the same
substance. 1t is also said that planta-
tons of fire are specific for consump-
ton in the district.
If there is land on the farm that
needs undertaking no better invest
ment can be made than money put
into tiles in good drains. 1t may re-
quire some economizing to pay for them
just now, but such wonderful pay will
be got back in times as will make a
man glad he had the pulck to make this
improvement, even though it may ap-
pear to be hard job.
A difference of four quarts Of milk
per day, at the low price of two cent
per quart, makes for 800 days $24,
which is the interest on $500 for a
year. This does not represent the
entire difference in value, as the
progeny of superior mixers will be
worth many times as much to raise as
will the progeny of the inferior ami
NAL. No farmer is rich enough to
keep poor cows.
While it is desirable that wheat
should have fair growth in the fall,
as better protection against winter
killing, it is not considered nearly so
important as it used to be. A moderate
growth, with roots in compact shape,
will be better than long and wider
distributed roots that are broken off
by freezing and thawing. The pres
ence of the Hessian fly renders early
sowing Objectionable. as the insects
attacks are always worse on very early
sowed wheat.
A correspondent, A. NJ, Pine Bluff,
Ark, sends us the following, which
she says is a good recipe for curing
mango on dogs: Grub lye soap all
over the dog and was b thoroughly
with warm water with tablespoonful
of crude carbolic acid in it, and, even
though the hair is gone, it will cure
it; besides it makes fleas vanish from
hogs as we'll as dogs, and they get
sleek and fat. Boiled walnut leaves
or tssigs answer just as well for mauge
but carbolic acid kills vermin. A
teaspoonful of Fowler's solution of
arsenic. given in water, cake or meat,
will cure almost instantly distemper
in dogs" ;
1t is marked that "the time to select
potato seed is when digging the crop.
That like produces like all admit,
and 1T is only reasonable to infer that
those hills which are the fullest of de-
sirable potatoes are the ones to save.
When the right hill is found, save
every tuber that is large enough for
seed. This method gives the best
chance for not only keeping up but i'm
proving the quality of the crop. Breed
ing from the best is much more rea-
sonabls and promising method than
random selection from the pile at sort
ing time. The best hills are discov-
cred only at harvest time, and then is
the only time they can be selected for
seed.''